WE WANT TO RESOLVE THIS ISSUE PEACEFULLY

The Japanese found a foreign submarine lurking off Okinawa. They are tracking it with an airplane. The submarine did not launch any missiles, shoot any torpedoes, or surface below any Japanese school ships (oops). Nevertheless, the Japanese have indicated that they "want to resolve this issue peacefully." Jeez for a country that has been "pacifist" for fifty years, it sure didn't take much to get them to contemplate non-peaceful solutions, did it?